Friday, 20 December 2013

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature
& Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to
make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know --
the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you,
you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts,
Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host
will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show
off more new blogs! How does this work? First you leave your name here
on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create
a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to
just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and
then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their
comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they
follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows
you!

Just remember it is required,
if you participate, to follow the Features and you must follow the hosts
(Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) as a courtesy. How do you follow
someone? Well, if you have a preference, state it in your #FF post. A
lot of blogs are transitioning to Wordpress in which they do not have
the luxury of GFC, so an RSS subscription is appreciated or if you
choose an email subscription. If you don't have GFC please state in your
post how you would like to be followed.

Question of the Week:

Pick a book in your favorite genre that you’d recommend to a reluctant reader.

At the moment I'm reading a lot of french literature and I can imagine there will be a lot of reluctant readers for this genre. One of my favorite french writers is Alexander Dumas. I can recommend the count of Monte Christo. I know it is a well known story but not many people brave the full version which is a 5 book thick tome. It is well worth the read as it gives you a better sense of the long time it takes Edward Dantes to get his revenge and the effort it takes him. I enjoyed it immensely.

Next Week's Question:

Merry Christmas! Happy Holidays! What
books did Santa stuff your stocking with this holiday season? Do a
holiday book haul for us! If you don’t celebrate just show off your
books that you got this week. Pictures!!!